Sentences with phrase «arbitrary decisions of»

Every detail of our lives, as well as those of the universe, depends upon arbitrary decisions of God.

No longer will predestination be... the arbitrary decision of an absolute sovereign power.

As a practical matter, disputing an error can be a time - consuming, nearly impossible three - party negotiation between the credit bureau, the creditor and the individual — a negotiation for which the outcome is ultimately controlled by the sometimes arbitrary decision of the agency.17

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More than 75 % of company retreats are absolute failures dominated by «circular conversations and way too much partying» because they «are arbitrary decisions based on a task and not a result,» says Alan Weiss, an organizational development consultant with a client list that ranges from JPMorgan Chase and the U.S. Federal Reserve to Hewlett - Packard and Mercedes - Benz.

A group of copper users has rounded on the Securities and Exchange Commission for its «arbitrary and capricious» decision to approve the first US investment product that would hold physical copper.

Without evidence, government makes arbitrary decisions that have the potential to negatively affect the daily lives of Canadians.

It is futile just to think that you can set up a trading robot using arbitrary decisions in a live trading environment and without good knowledge of what's really taking place.

by christian doctrine, we do not render ourselves sinful, it was one of those bizarre arbitrary decisions by god to bestow hereditary sin.

For this requires the arbitrary, finite decision of particular actualities, deciding for this rather than that.

Of course, judicial activism is an old problem, undemocratic and arbitrary, placing monumental decisions in too few hands.

Ward's answer is that morality is a «reasoned response to Supreme Valueand neither a wholly autonomous decision about how to live nor blind obedience to a set of arbitrary divine commands».

The idea that the capacity to receive from another or to be influenced by another is truly indicative of power is not derived from an arbitrary linguistic decision to extend the term «power» to include the receiving of an influence.

Thus freedom is always called to decisions which can not be derived from general norms and eternal laws alone (even though they must not contradict them) and which nevertheless are not left to an arbitrary choice but claim the whole man because of his special call.

When one couples this with what we have said earlier about man's freedom, the openness to the future which is before each of us and all of us, and the importance of decision as to choices made, the moral question is radically transformed from obedience to arbitrary command to willing acceptance of the invitation of love.

But that is an arbitrary decision based perhaps on their lack of a complex nervous system.

Because of all these opportunities for arbitrary decision, only a small number of those convicted of capital crimes are actually executed.

If the innocent were always protected from violent acts, then our decisions would be arbitrary since the consequences of such would be indeterminable.

It is not just a subjective or arbitrary decision, but needs to be grounded in the reality of our existence.

Ginsberg came down particularly hard on the commissioner's decision to increase Rice's initial two - game suspension to an indefinite one, a decision a judge ruled arbitrary at the conclusion of the appeal hearing.

Indeed, they go directly to the heart of the questions the Great Charter Convention series has raised: how can we contest and contain arbitrary power in society when certain individuals or group systematically have more influence over political decision - making?

In the case of pardoning Khodorkovsky, the decision was neither sensational nor arbitrary.

A state judge has ordered a new parole hearing for Judith Clark, a former left - wing militant who took part in a 1981 armored car robbery that left three dead, saying the State Board of Parole's decision last year to deny her parole was arbitrary and capricious.

A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration's decision to end a program protecting some young immigrants from deportation, calling the Department of Homeland Security's rationale against the program «arbitrary and capricious.»

The Court of Appeals, in a 5 - 0 decision, rejected claims that the regulations were arbitrary and capricious, and amounted to a retroactive punishment.

Whether you are trying to save your local hospital or stop a sewage farm being built next to your village, your chances of challenging even the most arbitrary decision will be greatly reduced.

Beyond the absurdity of trying to write a contract which could serve as an algorithm for making arbitrary presidential decisions, the US constitution states that officers of the US can be impeached only for «high crimes and misdemeanors».

Moreover, states wishing to implement bans are not required to scientifically justify their decisions and can appeal to more arbitrary concerns such as fears of GMOs contaminating other non-GM produce and likely public backlashes over use and cultivation.

It rightly quashed the arbitrary and unlawful decision of the Commissioner made on the 10th of October 2016 invalidating the nomination of the applicant as a candidate for the coming Presidential Election for alleged non-compliance with regulations 7 of the Public Elections Regulations, 2016 (CI 94) and ordered the Commissioner to comply with the Regulations.

Without waiting for the aspiring candidates to exhaust their constitutional rights to challenge her arbitrary decisions and determinations, she arrogantly proceeded to refer the aspiring candidates to the police for investigation for the commission of various offences alleged by her in her statement of reasons for disqualifying them.

Right off the bat, by defining a «fast food chain» that would be impacted by its decision, the board will «make distinctions that result in arbitrary and disparate treatment of businesses and their employees,» the council argues.

The town of North Elba will enlist a UAlbany law school professor to, on the town's behalf, appeal the decision of a Franklin County judge that the state's plan to build a 34 - mile rail trail from Lake Placid to Tupper Lake was «arbitrary and capricious» and failed to follow numerous state laws.

Researchers in decision theory have uncovered a variety of mental biases underlying some of our more illogical and arbitrary behaviours (see «Mental glitches that make fools of us»).

This has led to a patchwork of arbitrary decisions about what is tolerable.

For instance, choose to do sets of 3 - 5 reps, 4 - 6 reps, 5 - 7 reps, or 6 - 8 reps.. The decision is somewhat arbitrary; just make sure you write down the rep bracket you selected and stick with if for the duration of the program.

Upon first blush, the decision registers as an arbitrary homage to the golden age of American Westerns.

One day, we'll be able to watch the film without associating it with voter identification laws, a Supreme Court decision that put an arbitrary expiration date on racial discrimination, and a string of highly publicized and questionable police killings.

We fear decisions will frequently be subjective and arbitrary, as they have been in other parts of the public sector — notably the civil service — where performance pay has been introduced.

Granted, the boost to starting salaries is not as great as some advocates would like — the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce has called for starting salaries of $ 45,000 — but remember that this new schedule is based on the arbitrary decision to reward credentials that improve test scores by 1 percent of a standard deviation with a 1 percent boost in salary.

When the Washington State superintendent of public instruction, Randy Dorn, dropped the Discovering series from the recommended list of textbooks, Key Curriculum Press, the publisher of the Discovering series, unsuccessfully sued the state claiming, naturally, that his decision was arbitrary and capricious.

All of higher education is negatively impacted by this decision, and to those of us who believe in the power of human reason to improve the human condition, the arbitrary and unsubstantiated basis of the decision moves us away from the cosmopolitan aspirations of democracy and of the Enlightenment, back to an age of darkness.

The worst traits principals could display, according to previous research cited in this study, are arbitrary decision - making, abusiveness, and neglect of responsibilities.

In a series of questions about the state's dismissal laws, and whether they serve a useful purpose, Seymour agreed that they do, saying they help «protect teachers from arbitrary decisions that might be made by a principal or district for reasons not related to their teaching competence.»

As part of their «relentless respect» for staff members, effective principals steer clear of arbitrary decisions based on personal preference.

A recent New York court decision invalidated the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations due to the arbitrary and capricious nature of the process.

What is surprising us that so few people realize that setting up a single national authority to impose on the whole nation a single decision on every one of the thousands of separate judgment calls involved here is an arbitrary exercise of brute power that will generate all kinds of bad results, and no good ones.

«In those cases, the general feeling was that those decisions were rather arbitrary, not based on the merits of the charter that had been developed.

Is it just on account of an arbitrary engineering decision that was made decades ago (perhaps to simplify some piping or electrics) and has just been perpetuated through inertia?

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And if so, then the impact of their arbitrary decision going forward has an exponential financial impact on the author.

I tend to believe that the legal age of 18 is an arbitrary decision so that we can feel less guilty about sending children to war.